Once again, team abandoned its classic logo to pay homage to one of the most important late 19th century and early 20th artists.
On this occasion, the red, yellow, green and blue letters change to a more sober color and incorporate the thinker sculpture, created by the sculptor.
This sculpture in bronze by Rodin, originally named the poet, was part of a Commission from the Museum of decorative arts in Paris to create a monumental portal based on the Divine Comedy of Dante.Each of the statues represented one of the main characters of the allegorical poem.
The thinker, in its origin, sought to represent Dante against the gates of hell.
The sculpture is a nude, as Rodin wanted a heroic figure in the style of Miguel Ángel to represent both think like poetry. Rodin made a first model of the sculpture in plaster in 1880, but the first sculpture to large-scale culminated in 1902 despite the fact that it was not presented in public until 1904.
There are over twenty versions of sculpture in various museums around the world.
Some are enlarged versions of the original while others are of different proportions.Auguste Rodin gave a new direction to the conception of the monument and public sculpture. Because of this it has been regarded as "the first modern" in the history of art.